Can you not have a similar experience driving through rural Spain or France? Genuinely curious, the few road trips I took in Europe (Spain, Scotland) did not seem that different from those in the USA (except that roads tended to be narrower which gave me a more stressful experience).
You definitely can! I’ve driven from Ukraine to the Netherlands, going through Poland and Germany. The eastern parts of France were also quite nice.
I really like how when you are road tripping through Europe that there’s such different cultures and languages along the way, and old historical villages if you’re into that sort of thing. Mountains, forests, farms.. deserts in Spain, too, which I really want to see one day. That will probably be my next road trip.
Only tried Spain and a little bit of France so far. These parts of Europe seemed more urbanized than the US where some areas are still really wild and desolated.
